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into a recession. >> stick with us a minute here, senator durbin, who will be with us after the break when we talk about why democrats are waiting until after the election to vote on extending the bush tax cuts. (voice 2) they're pinging more targets... (voice 3) isolate... prevent damage... (voice 2) got 'em. (voice 3) great exercise guys. let's run it again. >>> by september of an election year, the house and senate floors are basically extensions of the campaign trail. thursday, senate democrats postponed until after the election a vote on extending bush-era tax cuts due to expire at the end of the year. some democrats in dicey elections worry the debate might hurt them back home, and republicans want extensions for all taxpayers, not just the middle class. in short, the democratic leadership didn't have the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster. ditto for the following list of items near and dear to the democratic base -- the disclose act, a campaign finance reform bill to undo a supreme court ruling which lifted spending restrictions on political ads from corporations and unions.
into a recession. >> stick with us a minute here, senator durbin, who will be with us after the break when we talk about why democrats are waiting until after the election to vote on extending the bush tax cuts. (voice 2) they're pinging more targets... (voice 3) isolate... prevent damage... (voice 2) got 'em. (voice 3) great exercise guys. let's run it again. >>> by september of an election year, the house and senate floors are basically extensions of the campaign trail....
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i want to thank you, as always, for being with us here on this cnn sunday morning. now time for me to hand it over to candy crowley and "state of the union." >>> the last acts of the primary season ended with an explosion in delaware's republican senate race. >> oh, my gosh. >> christine o'donnell, the favorite of tea party activists beat establishment candidate, congressman mike castle. and the decision by alaska senator lisa murkowski to fight back against the tea party candidate who won the primary. inside the republican party, the chatter of civil war. among democrats, the feeling that there's an opportunity here. >>> today, democrats look for an opening in the republican party divide. exclusive interviews with alaska senator lisa murkowski and tim kaine, chairman of the democratic national committee. >> they're chasing after moderate candidates and hence they're moderate voters. >>> also this morning, tea party kingmaker, senator jim demint. >> they're madder at the democrats than they are at the republicans right now. >>> i'm candy crowley and this is "state o
i want to thank you, as always, for being with us here on this cnn sunday morning. now time for me to hand it over to candy crowley and "state of the union." >>> the last acts of the primary season ended with an explosion in delaware's republican senate race. >> oh, my gosh. >> christine o'donnell, the favorite of tea party activists beat establishment candidate, congressman mike castle. and the decision by alaska senator lisa murkowski to fight back against the...
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into a recession. >> stick with me a minute here, senator durbin, who will be with us after this break when we talk about why democrats are waiting until after the election to vote on extending the bush tax cuts. [ wind howling ] [ technician ] are you busy? management just sent over these new technical manuals. they need you to translate them into portuguese. by tomorrow. [ male announcer ] ducati knows it's better for xerox to manage their global publications. so they can focus on building amazing bikes. with xerox, you're ready for real business. >>> by september of an election year, the house and senate floors with basically extensions of the campaign trail. thursday, senate democrats postponed until after the election a vote on extending bush-era tax cuts due to expire at the end of the year. some democrats in dicey elections worry the debate might hurt them back home, and republicans want extensions for all taxpayers, not just the middle class. in short, the democratic leadership didn't have the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster. ditto for the following list of items near and
into a recession. >> stick with me a minute here, senator durbin, who will be with us after this break when we talk about why democrats are waiting until after the election to vote on extending the bush tax cuts. [ wind howling ] [ technician ] are you busy? management just sent over these new technical manuals. they need you to translate them into portuguese. by tomorrow. [ male announcer ] ducati knows it's better for xerox to manage their global publications. so they can focus on...
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. >>> senator demint, thank you so much for joining us. >> candy, it's great to be here. >>> i have listened to you since the election of christine o'donnell, and you have repeated what you said kind of all along during this election year, which is, in general, i would rather have people who adhere to conservative principles than have the majority. so accepting that, the problem is that in the minority, you can't get anything done that you'd like to get done. so how do you -- i mean, square that for me. you can't repeal obama health care. you can't cut spending. you can't eliminate earmarks, which is one of your favorite causes here. so i don't -- i just -- it is inexplicable to me that you would rather have true conservatives than the majority, where you could actually do something. >> first of all, let me clarify what i mean by conservative. i'm just talking about common sense people who don't think balancing a checkbook is a radical idea. that's what we're looking for now. because the people in washington have clearly gotten out of control, in both parties. when you have $13 trillion in d
. >>> senator demint, thank you so much for joining us. >> candy, it's great to be here. >>> i have listened to you since the election of christine o'donnell, and you have repeated what you said kind of all along during this election year, which is, in general, i would rather have people who adhere to conservative principles than have the majority. so accepting that, the problem is that in the minority, you can't get anything done that you'd like to get done. so how do...